[NHCOLL-L:3675] Museum Storage Facilities online course in January 2008

[Helen Alten]

Northern States Conservation Center announces a museum storage course 
beginning late January 2008.

MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: January 28 through February 23, 2008
Cost: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture concentrates on building 
systems and furniture for storing and protecting collections. Topics 
include environmental controls, insulation, floor coatings and 
predicting space requirements. Museum Storage also compares 
commercial and homemade furniture and provides a blueprint for 
planning the redesign of your facility. Storage philosophy, 
construction requirements, safety and security and planning. A new 
unit details how commercial museum-quality cabinetry is constructed. 
Blueprints are provided for high-quality, homemade cabinets.

Course Outline:
1.      Storage Philosophy
2.      Agents of Deterioration and Preservation Planning
3.      Storage Facilities
4.      Storage Furniture
5.      Conclusion

Logistics:
Participants in Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture work at 
individual paces through five sections. Instructor Helen Alten is 
available at scheduled times during the course for email support. 
Resources include forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint 
lectures, reading materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web sites.

Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture runs four weeks. Please sign 
up at www.museumclasses.org and pay for the course at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html.  If you have trouble with 
either, please contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org.

Student Comments:

The content was perfect for what I was looking for. Though my class 
participation as minimal, the materials and information are here, 
there are links and lots of jumping off points that provide direction 
in areas I'm more interested in, and I can interact as time permits.

I liked the course content, the online nature of the course, the 
online chat and the self-paced work. I also liked the upload feature 
and the ability to re-submit after uploading for a period of time. . 
I would rate my online experience as a 10

I like that the material is at accessible, and I like being able to 
look ahead, or review the materials without having to go two or three 
places (book at home, papers on desktop, lessons in a deskfile).  I 
like the journal feature.

I appreciated how thorough the information in the lectures were and 
enjoyed the slides which gave "real-life" images.

The chats were the highlight of the course  great to have 
give-and-take with colleagues and an experienced conservator like 
Helen.  I felt like my specific questions were answered.

I really enjoyed having all the extra readings and references. I 
truly feel I can use those heavily in the future. The chats were very 
useful for having some questions answered.

The Instructor:
Helen Alten is an objects conservator and owner of Northern States 
Conservation Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been an educator, 
conservator and trainer since 1986. Ms. Alten received her master's 
degree in archaeological conservation and materials science at the 
Institute of Archaeology, University of London in 1986. She began 
working with small, rural, and tribal museums as conservator for 
Montana and Alaska.

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